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Author Kaiser, David.

Title How the hippies saved physics : science, counterculture, and the quantum revival / David Kaiser.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011

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Edition First edition.
Description xxvi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-359) and index.
Contents "Shut up and calculate" -- "Spooky actions at a distance" -- Entanglements -- From [symbol for Psi] to Psi -- New patrons, new forums -- Spreading (and selling) the word -- Zen and the art of textbook publishing -- Fringe?! -- From FLASH to quantum encryption -- The roads from Berkeley -- Ideas and institutions in the quantum revival.
Summary Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered the course of modern physics while studying quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading while lounging in hot tubs and dabbling with LSD.
Subject Physicists -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Quantum theory.
Counterculture.
Added Author Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.)
ISBN 9780393076363 hardcover $26.95
0393076369 hardcover
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